With more than two decades of legal experience, Gregg Levin represents domestic and foreign institutional investors and union pension funds in corporate governance, misconduct and securities fraud matters. His investigative, research and writing skills have supported Motley Rice as lead or co-lead counsel in securities derivative or shareholder cases against Dell, Inc., UBS AG and Cintas Corporation. Gregg manages complaint and brief writing for class action deal cases, shareholder derivative suits and securities fraud class actions.
Prior to joining Motley Rice, Gregg was an associate with Grant & Eisenhofer in Delaware, where he represented institutional investors in securities fraud actions and shareholder derivative actions in federal and state courts across the country, including the WorldCom, Telxon and Global Crossing cases. He also served as corporate counsel to a Delaware-based retail corporation from 1996-2003, where he handled corporate compliance matters and internal investigations.
Gregg is a published author on corporate governance and accountability, writing significant portions of the treatise Shareholder Activism Handbook (Aspen Publishers, November 2005). He has written several articles of interest to shareholders and institutional investors, including:
• “In re Cox Communications: A Suggested Step in the Wrong Direction†(Bank and Corporate Governance Law Reporter, September 2005)
• “Does Corporate Governance Matter to Investment Returns?†(Corporate Accountability Report, September 23, 2005)
• “In Re Walt Disney Co. Deriv. Litig. and the Duty of Good Faith under Delaware Corporate Law†(Bank and Corporate Governance Law Reporter, September 2006)
• “Proxy Access Takes Center Stage: The Second Circuit’s Decision in American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Employees Pension Plan v. American International Group, Inc.†(Bloomberg Law Reports, February 5, 2007)
• “Investor Litigation in the U.S. -- The System is Working†(Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter, February 2007)